Bridge Name: | Combs - Hehl Bridge |
Carries: | 6 lanes of |
Crosses: | Ohio River |
Locale: | California, Ohio and Highland Heights, Kentucky |
Maint: | Kentucky Transportation Cabinet[1] |
Design: | Twin Cantilever bridge |
Mainspan: | 219abbr=offNaNabbr=off |
Length: | 460abbr=offNaNabbr=off |
Traffic: | 72,000 |
Open: | December 1979 |
Coordinates: | 39.0585°N -84.4321°W |
The Combs - Hehl Bridge is a twin span single pier cantilever bridge carrying Interstate 275 (I-275) across the Ohio River. It connects the Eastern portion of Cincinnati, Ohio[2] and Campbell County, Kentucky.
The main span is 219abbr=offNaNabbr=off and the total length of each bridge is 460abbr=offNaNabbr=off. The bridge is named for former governor of Kentucky Bert T. Combs and former Campbell County Judge Executive Lambert Hehl.
Normal traffic makes it faster for commuters from Cincinnati's eastern suburbs to travel from Ohio to Kentucky on the Combs-Hehl bridge, travel less than 2 miles on I-275, and then take I-471 North into downtown.[3]